Archer
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About Archer
The name Archer is currently ranked #98 in U.S. births. and peaked for boys at #98 in 2025. The name is most popular in South Dakota, South Dakota, and North Dakota. Archer is occasionally used for girls in 2025.
2 syllables.
As of September 2026, Archer ranked #98 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #86.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #301 | 1,182 | 615.3 |
| 2015 | #289 | 1,275 | 665.2 |
| 2016 | #263 | 1,385 | 729.8 |
| 2017 | #254 | 1,462 | 789.9 |
| 2018 | #239 | 1,594 | 877.7 |
| 2019 | #206 | 1,884 | 1,050 |
| 2020 | #160 | 2,349 | 1,360.9 |
| 2021 | #139 | 2,731 | 1,561 |
| 2022 | #126 | 2,921 | 1,673 |
| 2023 | #129 | 2,833 | 1,656.2 |
| 2024 | #115 | 3,093 | 1,795.2 |
| 2025 | #98 | 3,627 | 2,123.4 |
World rankings
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Famous Archers
- Archer Ernest Baldwin
English MP
- Archer Kent Blood
American diplomat
- Archer John Porter Martin
English chemist; winner of the Nobel Prize
- Archer Alexander
model for the slave in the Emancipation Memorial located in Lincoln Park, Washington, DC, USA
- Archer Milton Huntington
American historian and philanthropist
- Archer King
American actor, agent and producer
- Archibald Paul "Archer" MacMackin
American silent film director and writer
- Archer James Oliver
British portrait painter
- Archer Prewitt
American cartoonist and musician of The Sea and Cake
- Archer Sage
son of blogger Rebecca Woolf
- Archer Jones Sebastian (b. 2012)
son of singer Guy Sebastian and Jules Egan
- Archer Grason Ewing (b. 2014)
son of actor Dan Ewing
- Archer Robert Seddon (b. 2015)
son of broadcaster Sally Bowrey and Richard Seddon
Archer in pop culture
- Archer Cross
character in Rachel Hawkins's Hex Hall series
- Archer
character in the Fire series by Kristin Cashore
- Archer Montgomery
Addison's brother on TV's "Grey's Anatomy" and "Private Practice"
- Archer Finn
character in Sarah J. Maas's "Crown of Midnight"
- Archer Hale
character in Mia Sheridan's book "Archer's Voice"
- Archer Evermonde
character in J.K. Rowling's "The Potter Family"
- Archer
Team Rocket Executive in the video games Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver
- "Archer
" animated TV series about main character Sterling Malory Archer
- Newland Archer
main character in Edith Wharton's "Age of Innocence"
- Jonathan Archer
character in the Star Trek series
- "The Archers
" British radio soap
- Archers
brand of schnapps
- "The Archer"
Song by Taylor Swift featured in "Lover"
Variations & nicknames
- Archie
- Arch